We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

Immediate gratification can become so overbearing that we undermine our ability to steadfastly pursue longer-term goals.

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain God after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of God constantly.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.